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We found this great little piece on the Web of some of Myron Mixon's Jacks Old South Marinade, Sauce and Rub recipes. Enjoy.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/ – Jacks Old South Bbq Recipes
Jack's Old South Meat Marinade Recipe
2 quarts apple juice
1 cup Worcestershire sauce
1 cup orange juice
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons hot sauce
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup salt
Heat and whisk together until sugar and salt dissolve.
Jack's Old South Competition Vinegar Sauce
2 cups cider vinegar
3 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons paprika
2 tablespoons brown sugar
4 teaspoons kosher salt
1 tablespoon hot sauce
1 teaspoon cayenne — (1 to 2)
1 teaspoon ground black pepper — (1 to 2)
Combine all the ingredients in a nonreactive mixing bowl, mixing until the sugar and salt dissolve. Taste for seasoning, adding pepper as needed.
Transfer to a clean, sterile jar and refrigerate. This vinegar sauce will keep for several months.
Jack's Old South BBQ Rub
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sweet paprika
1/4 cup kosher salt
3 tablespoons black pepper
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon dried basil
Combine all ingredients and mix well.
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If you're thinking of working with friends and family to build a custom kitchen from scratch, on a budget, and with recycled materials and salvaged hardware, suppress the idea and run - don't walk! - to Ikea instead.
Just kidding. You can do it and it's well worth the time and effort.
Here's the story of our "new" kitchen and why I adore it. Almost everything in it - with the exception of the appliances, which are new and energy efficient - has been repurposed, recycled or re-imagined.
Much of the higher-end stuff (the stone and some lighting) was destined for the landfill. A few choice items were hauled out of the bush and a burn pile.
The table was crafted by my man and the entire kitchen was built by a very dear friend. The LED "pot light" pendants are made from old track lighting and vintage concrete flowerpots - by me!
This cook space may not be Boffi, Eggersman or even Ikea, but it's definitely got character.
Our carpenter, Jeff Dexter, is a talented salvager and the best kind of collector: one who shares. Dexter has a stash of carefully deconstructed building materials on his nearby rural property. It's like a Home Depot for those who know all about "upcycling" - that term that speaks to items that have not only been given new life, but given better life.
For this project, Dexter cheerfully let go of several wooden lockers, which he had saved from an old fire hall, ironically damaged in a fire. The lockers are used on the upper cabinets (sideways) and lower as doors, as well as for the long pantry next to the fridge. Dexter constructed the kitchen shelves from recycled lumber, salvaged from a house that was being demolished. The hardware is repurposed, purchased from our local ReStore.
How badly did I want marble in my kitchen? Really badly. So, when we heard that a supplier had to immediately empty a storage warehouse full of leftover bits of building materials, my guys hightailed it over there with a cube van.
Notice the granite? That, too, was destined for the landfill. It was already cut to counter width, so we used it lengthwise and affixed the marble as a backsplash.
When you salvage stuff, you never know exactly what you may end up with. And surprisingly, free is not necessarily inexpensive. For example, the high-end low-voltage aluminum lighting came from another construction bin, but took me weeks to figure out, as all the parts were mixed up and disassembled. Also, I am not an electrician. I had to buy two pieces of rail from a wholesaler, which cost more than I had budgeted for a brand new lighting system. Those bulbs? Expensive.
But the sink makes up for it. The cast iron American Standard came from the bush beside Dexter's property. It's as heavy as a small car. But it's also deep and lovely and perfect for canning and washing up. I love my sink.
My plumber wasn't as impressed with it. "It's a slop sink," he announced dryly. "Very janitorial."
"Janitorial-chic," I replied with a smile. Above the sink, the windowsill "blooms of the day" display is made from recycled shooter glasses set into a chunk of driftwood.
That nine-foot dining room table? Rescued from a sawmill burn pile. My partner John Gillespie constructed the cedar slabs into a butterfly tabletop with oak stitches (from an old delivery pallet) very similar to one I had clipped from Belle magazine. A welder friend of his made the legs from scrap metal.
Finally, the side wall has a little crate montage and a catch-all bench (also made by John) constructed from solid oak timbers that were the base of a vintage industrial shipping crate. The market bag was stitched by my shoemaker, fashioned from an old piece of painted canvas and two recycled leather belts. The crates are handy in the kitchen for storage and for going back and forth to the garden.
But the best part of the kitchen? Knowing that all this good stuff didn't end up in the dump.
Thinking of doing a little 'upcycling' of your own? These sites are sure to inspire:

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Cold Sleep
A small scale study on the effect of cold on the fallen leaves. As autumn comes to an end, the mornings are getting colder. Hoar frost sets the stage for what is about to come. The foliage makes a final display of elegance and beauty. Even now, there's magic in the leaves. They will soon become one with the earth and thanks to them, the trees will blossom again.Read More


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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today that midfielder Bryce Alderson will join United Soccer Leagues (USL) Pro side Charleston Battery on a season-long loan.
"Bryce is one of the top young talents in Canadian soccer and he possesses a great deal of potential," said Martin Rennie, Whitecaps FC head coach. "At his stage of development it is important to get as much competitive action as possible and we feel that he can benefit from spending time with Charleston Battery, who we have an excellent relationship with."
Alderson, 19, joins Whitecaps FC teammates Ben Fisk and Emmanuel Adjetey on loan in South Carolina.
"I hear great things about Charleston and the club and I'm looking forward to this new opportunity as I continue my development," added Alderson.
The midfielder joined the Whitecaps FC Residency program in September 2010 and in November 2011 joined the club's MLS roster as a Generation adidas Homegrown player.
Last year, the 5-foot-10, 170-pound native of Kitchener, Ontario, made six appearances and scored one goal in MLS Reserve League action. The midfielder also made five appearances for Whitecaps FC U-23 in the USL Premier Development League (PDL). In addition, Alderson scored six goals in 21 appearances for Whitecaps FC U-18 Residency in the United States Soccer Development Academy (USSDA. Alderson's efforts helped the 'Caps reach the championship match as he was named to the USSDA U-18 West Conference Team of the Year.
Internationally, Alderson has represented Canada at the U-23, U-20, and U-17 levels – serving as captain during the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup – and was named Canadian U-17 Player of the Year in both 2010 and 2011.
Transaction: Vancouver Whitecaps FC (MLS) send midfielder Bryce Alderson on season-long loan to USL Pro side Charleston Battery on April 30, 2013


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Liberty freshman Jess Reinhardt placed 46th in the 100 fly at the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships.
For the second year in a row, a Liberty swimmer competed at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. On Friday, freshman Jess Reinhardt placed 46th in preliminary heats of the 100 fly at the national meet, held at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind. Reinhardt swam 54.23, finishing ahead of swimmers from Tennessee, Georgia and Florida State. She entered the meet with a seed time of 52.87, which had her seeded 35th in the 100 fly. The native of Gatton, Queensland, Australia wraps up a successful 2012-13 collegiate debut season. During the year, she broke the conference record in both the 100 fly and 200 fly. She was also named CCSA Women's Freshman of the Meet for winning both butterfly races at the CCSA Championships. Reinhardt had qualified at the Ohio State Last Chance Meet, dropping her lifetime best from 53.18 to 52.87 and cementing her place at nationals. She joins Brye Ravettine as Lady Flames to compete at nationals. Ravettine placed 13th in the 50 free to gain All-America honorable mention status at the 2012 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. The Lady Flames, in their third year as a swimming program, placed second at the CCSA Swimming & Diving Championships for the second year in a row. Liberty also finished the regular season ranked No. 37 in the Endless Pools/CollegeSwimming.com Top 25.


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Running November 16 - 19
The first Chicago Art Book Fair is dedicated to showcasing emerging directions and diverse legacies within small press arts publishing. The fair features an international group of over 100 arts publishers, small presses, book artists, comics artists, zinemakers and printmakers. The fair will take place over the course of three and a half days from November 16–19, and will also feature satellite programming and after parties. CABF is free and open to the public.
Find out more about programming, exhibtors, and venues at the link below.


text: I photographed and posted a total of 578 old cars and trucks on the streets of Alameda, California, for the Down On The Street series before I moved to Denver and then left Jalopnik. Now I'm back in California for a LeMons race, and Alameda has been restocked with new examples of classic street-parked iron. (Read More…)


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Real number theory was perhaps the most significant course I took in college. There were three of us enrolled my last semester, a number small enough that that it could have been cancelled. I'm indebted to the late Prof. Jack Lamoreaux and the math department that it wasn't. Each student would spend 10-20 minutes at the board pursuing Dedekind's question, Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?. Prof. Lamoreaux would guide us and involve the two sitting students with a minimal touch. For the last five minutes of class, he would lay out a direction for the next time we would meet. There were no exams, as we exposed continually all that we knew and all that we lacked knowing.
There were no assigned texts. We started with Peano's axioms, a few simple statements that define the set of natural numbers. Using logic and set theory, we showed that the set defined by Peano's axioms have various of the properties we think of the natural numbers having. Rules of arithmetic and comparison can be described that work like those we've known since childhood.
Having the set of natural numbers at our disposal, we constructed integers as classes of ordered pairs of natural numbers. We did something similar for the rational numbers, and proved, for instance, that the rational numbers are an infinite, countable set.
The next step was to define the set of real numbers based on the framework we had built up from the natural numbers. This step was qualitatively different from those that produced integers and rational numbers. My main tool for this task was the Cauchy sequence. A Cauchy sequence is an ordered set of numbers that converges. Defining where it converges is the interesting part because it may be a value of a kind that the sequence elements are not. A sequence of rational numbers can converge around something that is not a rational number, so how can one describe where they are going? Remember, the task is to define the real numbers, so their existence can't be used until we've defined what they are. The way the problem is handled with a Cauchy sequence is that for any distance, no matter how small, and often labeled ε, a number N can be found such that any two elements in the sequence beyond the Nth are closer than distance epsilon apart. Classes of converging sequences of rational numbers can be used as a definition of the set of real numbers.
An example is √2, that number which when multiplied by itself equals 2. This number is not a rational number. Sequences of rational numbers can be defined, however, that come as close as desired to √2. One ancient Babylonian left behind 1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603 as a rational approximation to √2, a value that is good to 1 part in 2 million. The Babylonian method of approximating square roots converges quadratically, so the next approximation in a sequence built by that method would be good to 1 part in 11 trillion. Even if we went past the nineth number in that sequence where the approximations all match one another for the first thousand digits, or past the twentieth where they match for the first million digits, nowhere in a sequence of rational numbers could √2 be found.
None of the elements of the sequence is a real number; the sequence is the real number.
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."-Isaiah


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While training the new staff at our first-ever Sonos Store, I asked, "How many of you are in a band or are musicians?" Almost all of them raised their hands. That means that for most of them, Sonos is their day job. Like any musician, they're dreaming it will be their last. What advice could I possibly give them as someone who turned her day job into a career?
Well, first, that I once shared their dream. When I was a line cook, record store clerk, barista, etc., I remember that day jobs always came with a tinge of humiliation. A little bit of, "this isn't really me, what I should be doing, what I'm capable of…" For me, the most humiliating day job was not the one that required me to clean the toilets at the end of the night. It was the one that took me back to my small southern women's college in Decatur as an (egad!) staff member. Specifically, I was the Student Activities Coordinator responsible for arranging undergrad mixers, playing matchmaker to sorority types, and booking the entertainment. After having been such a star student, I could just hear my professors saying to themselves, "What happened? So much potential! Tsk tsk."
I swallowed my pride for the great pay, reasonable hours, and health insurance. And then I discovered the budget! Wow- so much cash to pay bands! I booked them in the auditorium, the amphitheater, even with peach cobbler in the date parlor. There was Catpower when she was still Chan and working at Fellini's; there was the now-famous-artist Roe Ethridge's band, Joybang. Goodie Mob played with their then lesser known friends Outkast, and Suge Knight showed up– just days after he was rumored to have shot Tupac. Ken Vandermark and Hamid Drake came down from Chicago and suddenly Jazz Studies wasn't history, it was now! I paid them all well. I made a little money myself. Meanwhile I used the office photocopier to make my band fliers, and the office fax and email to land a record deal with the label of our dreams.
I had hoped that deal would be the end of day jobs for me too. But it wasn't. The years that came after- writing, recording, rehearsing and touring- were always accompanied by day jobs. After six years, four albums, and at least as many jobs, I actually longed for a simple life where all I HAD was a day job. An easy job that might leave the world a little better than I found it. That's what I set out for.
Here's what I learned along the way:
First, if you're looking for something easy, you might as well give up.
I remember cleaning up while hearing Chan sing, what took many more years to register:
"Never give up no, never give up
If you're looking for something easy
You might as well give it up"
Second, there is no end to day jobs. EVERYONE has one. Trent Reznor made more on his deal with Apple music than he ever made on his music. If you're very lucky it will be completely related to what you do best.
Finally, the most you can hope for is that you bring as much of yourself to the work you do every day as humanly possible, that the thing you most enjoy making is the thing that makes you money, and that you're in an environment where you can make that thing as good as it can possibly be. That last one may sound cliché, but it takes chops, courage, tenacity and support to deliver a creative vision without compromises.
That's why the new Sonos Store at 101 Greene Street in New York is so special for me. We didn't ask each other to settle or sell-out. We took the creativity and vision of a few, combined it with the determination and hard work of many, and we've ended up with the very best home for music we could make.
Ultimately there's only one thing that's worth selling out for: it's the balance between earning a living and living a fulfilled live.
What makes that balance changes over time for each of us in ways impossible to predict. When I first heard Paid In Full, I never imagined someday going to work, finding that balance, and seeing Rakim there. I'm going to do that tomorrow, and I'm still going to be thinking of a master plan every step of the way…
"But now I learned to earn cause I'm righteous
I feel great so maybe I might
Just search for a 9 to 5
If I strive then maybe I'll stay alive
So I walk up the street, whistling this
Feeling out of place cause, man, do I miss
A pen and a paper, a stereo, a tape of
Me and Eric B and a nice big plate of
This, which is my favorite dish
But without no money it's still a wish
Cause I don't like to dream
About getting paid
So I dig into the books of the
Rhymes that I made
So now's a test to see if I got pull
Hit the studio, cause I'm paid in full"


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I'd like to announce the availability of the first version of GwtGL, a WebGL binding for GWT.
We released the project on Google code under the Apache 2 licence.
Here is a brief description of the project:
WebGL is a Javascript API, so you would have to program your application using Javascript.
This is where GwtGL comes into play. Using GwtGL, which is Open Source and free to use, you can develop WebGL apps using the Java language, using your favorite Java IDE (e.g. Eclipse), using powerful Java tools.
With the first release of GwtGL we provide a complete binding for WebGL, so everything that is possible with WebGL directly is also possible using GwtGL. Besides that, GwtGL offers a wrapper layer on top of the binding to allow the developer to program in an object oriented, easier way. We also released some docs with explanations and tutorials, and some examples that you can use as a starting point for your own apps.
More info and a download package can be found at the project website @ http://code.google.com/p/gwtgl/ .
I'd like to get some feedback from you on your experiences or your opinion regarding this project.
Best regards,


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Who would have thought that 50 years later these 4 guys with their special haircut would be more famous than ever.
Young and old is not important. Everybody knows the Beatles. Songs like "Let it be", "Hey Jude!" or "yesterday" are well known by everyone.
We, from Lürzer Obertauern, have a very particular relationship to the guys from Liverpool since their shooting in 1965 in Obertauern for their 5th album and soundtrack to the "Help" movie.
The moptops spent their nights in the hotel Edelweiss and Mr. Lürzer Herbert sen. even acted as double for the Beatles.
We celebrate the 50 years anniversary of the Beatles from the 14th till the 21st of March.
"The Beatles Monument" in front of the hotel Edelweiss will be unveiled with the slogan "A tribute to the Beatles".
Mr. Herbert Lürzer sen., the former double of Sir Paul McCartney, will entertain our guests with exciting stories from the movie set. Special movies will be showen in Obertauern. Ruth McCartney, stepsister of Paul McCartney, is going to cook a 4-course-menu and will answer all of your questions.
We are going to finish the "Beatles Tribute Week" with Beatles-Music in special ambience in the restaurant Steinbock. The menu will be the original beatles menu from March 1965. Don't forget to reserve a table and enjoy the atmosphere with unforgettable music.


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The mildly floral, slightly exotic flavour of mace works perfectly in this simple shortbread that is flecked with citrus zest. Though we used tangerine, any citrus zest — orange, grapefruit, lemon, even lime — could be substituted. You also could use a glass with an attractive pattern on the bottom to flatten the cookies, creating an imprint on the finished cookies.
Start to finish: 30 minutes
Makes 24 cookies
14 tablespoons (1 stick plus 6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
Finely grated zest of 1 tangerine
1 teaspoon mace
2 cups all-purpose flour
Heat the oven to 350 F.
In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together the butter, sugar, salt, zest and mace until creamy. Mix in the flour just until a dough comes together.
Scoop out the dough in balls about the size of a walnut. Use the palms of your hands to flatten each ball into a round, then arrange on 2 baking sheets, leaving 1/2 inch between them. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, or until lightly golden brown. Cool completely on the baking sheets. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
Nutrition information per cookie: 110 calories; 60 calories from fat (55 per cent of total calories); 7 g fat (4.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 20 mg cholesterol; 11 g carbohydrate; 0 g fibre; 3 g sugar; 1 g protein; 20 mg sodium.
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MONTREAL – Professor Charles Boberg leans forward excitedly in his chair.
"It's pure romance," he says.
Boberg isn't talking about moonlit evenings or dancing cheek-to-cheek.
He's referring to the vowel sounds emanating from the audio recorder on his desk.
By "romance," he means the Romance languages derived from Latin, including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Romanian.
"Toe," says the voice, the "O" sound ringing out pure and clear, like the "O" in "espresso," in "allegro," in "basso profondo." It's a vowel sound that would be right at home in the land of Michelangelo and Vivaldi; of Virgil and Sophia Loren.
But the speaker is a born-and-bred anglophone from Montreal.
Boberg is a sociolinguist at McGill University who studies the way Montrealers speak English. Not just the fact that we go to the "dep" instead of the convenience store; that we eat our pizza "all-dressed" (with pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers and cheese); that we live in a "four-and-a-half" (two-bedroom apartment) with a "gallery" (porch); that we "open" and "close" the lights and pepper our speech with French terms like "planification," "formation" and "animator."
There's another thing that sets Montreal English apart, something you can hear any time you stroll along Ste. Catherine St. It's our accent – or rather, accents.
Unlike most North American cities, Boberg says, Montreal is not a linguistic melting pot where everyone ends up sounding more or less the same.
Montreal English comes in different flavours, depending on whether our forebears hailed from Lodz, Naples or County Down; whether we grew up in the East End or the West Island; whether we hung out with kids from our own culture or went to a school that was ethnically diverse.
Brenda Fayerman, IT director at JPPS-Bialik, a private Jewish day school, says that when she visits Toronto, her accent immediately sets her apart as a Montrealer. "I think I have a Jewish intonation and I use very Jewish expressions," says Fayerman, who grew up in Côte des Neiges and lives in Côte St. Luc.
The Italian Montreal accent is a defining trait of a community that bridges the city's French-English divide, says Domenic Cusmano, the publisher of Accenti, a Montreal-based cultural magazine for the Canadian-Italian community.
"In Toronto, Italians are pretty much absorbed in the culture," Cusmano says. "There is not really a Toronto Italian accent in the way there is one in Montreal."
Many Montreal Italians are linguistic acrobats, swinging effortlessly between three languages. "My nonna will talk to me in Italian and my grandfather on my mom's side will talk to me in French, so I have all three," says Robyn Orsini, 15, a Secondary 4 student at Laurier Macdonald High School in St. Léonard who feels most comfortable in English. Robyn also studies Spanish in the school's international baccalaureate program.
Boberg was immediately struck by the diversity of Montreal English when he came to McGill in 1997 from Philadelphia. He chose to compare the speech of Italian, Jewish and British Montrealers because they were the largest groups in the anglophone community and their accents presented some interesting contrasts.
The 2006 Census lists 2.4 million francophones, 448,325 anglophones and 783,210 allophones in greater Montreal. The 260,350 Italian Montrealers are the largest ethnic group after people who list their heritage as Canadian, French or British. Jewish Montrealers number about 90,000.
A native of Northfield, Minn., who grew up in Edmonton, Boberg completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania under the famous sociolinguist William Labov, with whom Boberg co-authored the Atlas of North American English in 2006. Boberg has also written a forthcoming book on Canadian English.
Born to a Canadian father and an Oxford-educated mother who lived in South Africa as a child, Boberg, 45, developed an early interest in spoken English. "My mother spoke British English, my father spoke Canadian English and we lived in the U.S. That loosened up my ears," he says.
So distinctive are the different varieties of Montreal English that Boberg calls them ethnolects – dialects spoken by particular cultural groups.
Many Jewish Montrealers pronounce the hard "g" sound in "bang," "wrong," "hanger" and "singer" and sprinkle their sentences with Yiddish words like mazel tov (congratulations) or fapitzed (gussied up).
Many Italian Montrealers emphasize the final consonant in words like "skirt" or "joke" and say things like: "When are they going to clean the snow" (instead of "clear the snow") and "Me, I like chocolate" (instead of "I like chocolate").
Of the three groups, British-origin Montrealers most resemble English Canadians outside Quebec in their speech. But a few traits distinguish them from other Canadians. One is the "ar" sound in marry, which most Montrealers pronounce differently from the "ar" sound in Mary. In the rest of Canada, Barry rhymes with "berry" and the first syllable in "carrot" sounds like "care," but the two sounds are distinct here.
Boberg recently completed a study that confirmed his hypothesis that Montreal-born anglophones of British, Jewish and Italian heritage have measurably different accents.
Under Boberg's supervision, linguistics students recorded interviews with 93 subjects. The vowel sounds of the three groups were then compared using acoustic analysis.
Of the three groups, Italian Montrealers articulated vowels most clearly while people of British ancestry opened their mouths the least.
Jewish Montrealers tended to pronounce the "I" in words like "sigh" so it sounds like "soy."
Newlyweds Dan Quinn and Silvana Barone often laugh about the differences in how they speak English. Barone, a medical student at Université de Montréal, is of Italian heritage and grew up Villeray and St. Leonard while Quinn, a teacher at St.Thomas High School, is a West Islander of Irish ancestry.
"I'll say something and he'll say, 'Oh well, it's because you're Italian.' " says Barone. "That'll happen all the time. It can be little expressions, or sometimes I'll say something in a grammatically incorrect way and he will correct me. He'll notice a lot of things that I wouldn't necessarily notice when I'm hanging out with my Italian friends."
Boberg denies that his study promotes stereotypes about the communities under study.
"In linguistics, we're interested in how membership in groups affects the way people talk. But we always speak in terms of attributes that belong to groups, not to individuals.
"Any person is a unique individual and may be more or less characteristic of the group that they may identify with. But the fact that there's also individual variation does not prevent these group-level differences from emerging and from being of interest to linguistic science," he says.
Distinctive speech patterns are common among immigrant communities everywhere, Boberg says. What makes Montreal unusual is that these differences persist well into the third generation and beyond.
Why? C'est pas compliqué. The French fact makes Montreal a unique linguistic environment.
In 2006, 66 per cent of the 3.6 million Montreal-area residents spoke French as their mother tongue, 12.5 per cent English and 22 per cent another language.
On the island of Montreal, francophones accounted for just under half of the 1.8 million residents, anglophones for 18 per cent and allophones for 33 per cent.
The dominance of French is a matter of policy as well as population. Quebec's language laws, which impose French in advertising, the workplace and much of the education system, mean that immigrants are not exposed to the pervasive presence of English as in other North American cities.
But English Montrealers' minority status doesn't tell the whole story. The geographic distribution of the English-speaking population also contributes to the diversity of Montreal accents.
Montrealers have a long tradition of clustering in ethnic enclaves: Think of the Jewish neighbourhood around the Main in the novels of Mordecai Richler. As cultural communities have prospered and moved farther away from the downtown core, they have continued to congregate in certain neighbourhoods. For example, says Boberg, more than half the residents of Hampstead and Côte St. Luc are Jewish – a majority that rises to 83 per cent in the census tract southwest of Cavendish Mall.
Italian-Canadians are the largest ethnic group in St. Léonard and Rivière des Prairies, representing about one-third of the population, and as much as 67 per cent of the population in some census tracts.
"In Edmonton, a Jewish or Italian kid would be completely surrounded by models that would help them assimilate," Boberg says.
"In Montreal, you get lots of Italian kids who go to a school where most of their friends are Italian. You get Jewish kids who go to school where most of the kids are Jewish."
In recent years, many cultural communities have relocated to Laval, the South Shore and the West Island. The future of Montreal accents depends on whether those groups remain intact or gradually become assimilated, says Boberg. "When you begin to get people breaking away from the ethnic groups to which they've belonged, and marrying outside their own ethnic group, the children of those marriages will tend to speak blended varieties."
The future of Quebec's language debate is another factor. "It's hard to know how English is going to work in a community where there are so many political complexities that surround the use of the language," Boberg says.
Argyro Saitanis, 52, a Town of Mount Royal mother of three, treasures the way ethnic communities retain their distinctiveness. "Montreal is so obviously different from the rest of the world," she says. "All these ethnic groups living side-by-side and communicating in two languages and sometimes three."
Robert Piazza, a high school English teacher who recently moved to Edmonton, misses the city's varied accents.
"Depending on what part of town you're in, whether it's N.D.G. or Rivière des Prairies, there's a different accent. Coming back to Montreal over the holidays, I realized that not only do you see different cultures but you hear them as well."
Piazza, 29, recalled an inspiration that once struck him while visiting New York of capturing a sonic snapshot of the city by walking around with a tape recorder.
"You could do that in Montreal also, he says. "You would have this mosaic of accents and dialects that would be Montreal. So if you're feeling homesick, you could push the play button and you'd be back home."


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Every day I receive between 50 and 100 comments. Many of these comments request information or advise from me.
I appreciate the honour of your request for information.
Unfortunately, there is only one of me managing and writing the blog. Consequently, I simply do not have enough time to reply to each of your questions.
There are many comments that ask the same question. In these situations where I have the information, I will provide my knowledge in a post, time permitting.
I will respond to any comment made by a person who is experimenting with my software development tools.
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Travel to Laos
Ornate temples, river adventures and laid-back charm
Often overlooked in favour of its better-known neighbours, landlocked Laos remains one of Southeast Asia's most beguiling destinations. Caught in the middle of the two Indochina wars and long isolated from the rest of the world, the country retains a slow, rather old-fashioned charm, and its people – incredibly laidback and friendly, even by Asian standards – are undoubtedly one of the highlights of any visit.
Laos's lifeline is the Mekong River, which runs the length of the country, at times bisecting it and at others serving as a boundary with Thailand; the rugged Annamite Mountains historically have acted as a buffer against Vietnam, with which Laos shares its eastern border. Most people visit the country as part of a wider trip in the region, often entering from Thailand and following the Mekong further south. However, Laos alone rewards further exploration, and with a little more time it's not hard to feel like you're visiting places where few Westerners venture. Stretching from the forest-clad mountains of the north to the islands of the far south, there's enough here to keep you occupied for weeks, and still feel as though you'd barely scratched the surface.
For such a small country, Laos is surprisingly diverse in terms of its people. Colourfully dressed hill tribes populate the higher elevations, while in the lowland river valleys, coconut palms sway over the Buddhist monasteries of the ethnic Lao. The country also retains some of the French influence it absorbed during colonial days: the familiar smell of freshly baked bread and coffee mingles with exotic local aromas in morning markets, and many of the old shophouses of its larger towns now (appropriately) house French restaurants.
The effects of the wars, and of its communist government, are unmistakable – it remains completely inadvisable to strike out into the countryside without following paths for fear of UXO (unexploded ordnance) – and the country remains heavily dependent on its neighbours for all manner of products; indeed in some parts of the country, the local markets stock more Chinese and Vietnamese goods than Lao. However, whether you're riding through the countryside on a rickety old bus crammed with sacks of rice, more people than seats, and blaring tinny Lao pop music, leisurely sailing down the Mekong past staggeringly beautiful scenery, or being dragged by a stranger to celebrate a birth over too much Beer Lao and lào-láo, it's hard not to be won over by this utterly fascinating country and its people.
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Annual Report of the Secretary-General
English, French & Spanish: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/64/1(SUPP)
German: http://www.un.org/depts/german/gs/a64-1.pdf
The Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization to the 64th session of the General Assembly has been issued (A/64/1). The report is divided into 3 main chapters:
General Assembly – 64th session
English: http://www.un.org/ga/
French: http://www.un.org/french/ga/index.shtml
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/ga/
General Debate of the 64th Session: 23-26 & 28-30 September 2009
English: http://www.un.org/ga/64/generaldebate/index.shtml
French: http://www.un.org/french/ga/index.shtml
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/ga/64/generaldebate/index.shtml
Security Council Reform - Report of the Open-ended Working Group (A/63/47)
English, French & Spanish: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/63/47(SUPP)
The report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council has been issued (A/63/47). This is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly dealing with Security Council reform. The report includes annexes containing schedule proposal and working papers on Security Council reform.
Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About 2008
The UN tries to make sure that stories that do not necessarily grab the headlines are not forgotten. The Department of Public Information (DPI) has launched a list of stories that unfolded in the last year that the world may wish to hear more about. The stories seek to highlight issues that may not have made it to many people's radar screens:
Summit on Climate Change (22 September 2009, UN Headquarters)
English: http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/lang/en/pages/2009summit
French: http://www.un.org/fr/climatechange/summit2009/
Spanish: http://www.un.org/es/climatechange/summit2009/
The Secretary-General is convening the Summit on 22 September 2009 in order to gather heads of state to discuss the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to be held this December. The Summit website includes background information, the Summit programme, and a newsroom. It also provides statements made at the Summit and links to live coverage of meetings.
Climate Community (new UNDP website)
English, French, Spanish: http://www.undpcc.org
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French: http://www.un.org/french/peace/peace/bnote.htm
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MDG Gap Task Force Report 2009: Strengthening the Global Partnership for Development in a Time of Crisis
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Overview in English, French & Spanish: http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/
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Alexander Baron von Engelhardt
Hechelstr. 10 - 12
D – 13403 Berlin
phone: + 49 30 513 000 26
fax: + 49 30 48 49 83 33 01
Skype: vonEngelhardt
VAT-ID No. DE236772080
This is a business of Alexander Baron von Engelhardt pursuing his project The Legal Guide to Germany.
The editor, Alexander Baron von Engelhardt, is licensed as a Rechtsanwalt (attorney at law/barrister/solicitor) by Chamber of Attorneys Berlin.
Further Memberships:
- American Church in Berlin e.V. www.AmericanChurchBerlin.de,
- American German Business Club-Berlin e.V. www.AGBC-Berlin.de,
- American Citizens Abroad, Country Contact for Berlin, www.ACA.ch
Design assistance:
Technical Assistance:
Johannes Wobus
- Details
- Created on Friday, 17 May 2019 16:00
- Last Updated on Friday, 17 May 2019 16:30
Project Description Legal Guide to Germany
to obtain institutional funding for
Legal Media UG
Table of Contents
1.2. Lawyer Referral Directories
4.2. Profit and Loss Forecast 1
4.3.3. Institutional Readers ./. Volume Licenses
4.3.6. Calculations on Turnover from Readerships
4.3.7. Calculations on Turnover from Institutional Readers
184.108.40.206 Content / Online Manager
1. Introduction
Substantial financing is needed to push the service portal "Legal Guide to Germany(LG2G)" into full swing. The vision is to develop LG2G from the phase of very first turnover to a self-financing business by selling legal content for everyday use and brokering professional (legal) services for the successful foreigner and investor in Germany.
At first, this project began with the book "The Legal Guide to Living in Germany" in 2005. The initiator having just passed his exams was unemployed and wanted to earn money. The first edition was printed by Weißensee Verlag. Afterwards, it was self-published – without budget. Continuing this project with a website proved as the only serious possibility to make money and provide 24/7 up-to-date information. LG2G in its momentary prototype status consists of the following subprojects. Those with a name formatted bold already exist as a prototype.
1.) Encyclopedia: selling content pages (initial orientation),
2.) Shop: selling e-literature (checklists, brochures, contract templates, etc.),
3.) LawFon: paid initial consultations via a toll number 09001 529 366 LawFon xx, ,
4.) Business Directory: yellow pages for service providers wanting to cater to expats with the possibility to promote their news and hints.
5.) Ask-a-Lawyer: Brokering legal services via an online portal,
6.) Get-a-Translation: providing a cheap and quick translation
The project's overall goal is to advise successful immigrants and investors by instructing them of their everyday rights and duties. This is to help them successfully integrate and live in Germany – in regards to legal questions. It is all about collecting "F.A.Q." for all legal subjects and more under one portal.
Initiator of LG2G is a German / American lawyer focusing on the needs of expats and investors. He uniquely has this understanding deriving from an accumulation of professional experiences as a dual national lawyer for the foreigner. His personal background is multicultural: Father was born in Moscow to a Tatarian mother and German father. The applicant's mother was born in Silesian to a Lithuanian mother and Masurian father. The publisher himself was born and grew up in the United States. As a child, he was a baptized into the Russian-Orthodox Greek-Catholic church but raised as a Protestant in the U.S. He was confirmed as Protestant in the American Church Berlin. His ecumenical wedding was dispensed by the Pope in Rome as his wife is a converted Roman Catholic.
Why is everything to be in English? Target customers of this project are foreigners (in Germany). In many cases when entering Germany, the command of the German language is not good enough to study such complex topics as "law". Today "everybody" speaks English – the modern lingua franca.
Initiator's motivation for this project derives from:
- great pleasure to produce informative texts,
- enjoyment to teach lay persons,
- preference for the job as a legal journalist compared to that of a lawyer constantly arguing in court.
The initial spark to LG2G came from two experiences: A fellow worshiper of www.AmericanChurchBerlin.de asked for some help. in his shaking hands, he held a letter. He had the feeling of having done something wrong without knowing what. Though inwardly laughing out loud and outwardly keeping a calm composure, he was informed that he had not committed any crime. The TV tax authority in its brusque politeness requested the registration of his radio and TV set.
1.1. The Subprojects
All subprojects have their model business – but not in English and not targeting Anglophone foreigners. Nobody has successfully dared to cater this market.
1.1.1. Encyclopedia
LG2G informs the successful business person or expat – as well as diplomats. The online encyclopedia now exists as a prototype. These individuals are to obtain such knowledge that an average German citizen or businessman has by offering a web-based and always up-to-date encyclopedia. This "learning system" can quickly adapt to changes in law and add further content when needed as the information is retrievable online 24/7.
Economic attachés are interested in LG2G when they have to report to home authorities – e.g. as a nutshell for "German Pakistan Days". An immigrant will consume, work, and enjoy his life if he has his basic concerns covered (employment, accommodation, and orientation).
Integration of the immigrating foreigner is very important for Germany's economy – as well as a legal duty. Foreigners Commissioners or politicians in general, charities, other private initiatives care for the poor and needy, children and youth, refugees and other (socially) disadvantaged. Who cares for the successful persons or businesses in life which just happen not to come from Germany?
"Reliable information" is the name of the game! There are so many social networks for expats that want to serve their readers with legal information. Their quality is often questionable or simply wrong[1].
LG2G is a prototype and conceptually finished. Lawyer, accountants, and other professionals are to be acquired in order to provide content in which the applicant has no practical experience himself. Other professionals can be insurance brokers who will report on retirement provisions, private vs. statutory health insurance. They can be rewarded with free advertisement on the site (profile, publishing their own news, etc.). In the future when LG2G is obtaining profit, remuneration will be considered. Content partnerships will be offered for such professionals that care in full for a certain topic. Their contribution in kind will be rewarded with being preferentially treated in search results and be tagged as "Sponsor". These authors will become silent partners and marginally participate in profits. This approach is like a further development of Rechtsanwalt Dr. Timo Ehmann implemented with his JusMeum.
1.1.2. Ask-A-Lawyer
Rechtsanwalt 2.0 or legal tech is the current buzz word for the future of providing legal services. Next to software for evaluating contracts, the marketing of law firms is dramatically changing. Private and freelancing clients are becoming ever more reluctant to visit a lawyer's office but prefer to make use of an online portal. This website clearly identifies the individual lawyer via profile, and provides a competence check via previous questions, organizes payment. All this done inside everyone's "comfy zone". The relevant software needs to be developed in order to broker legal services because white versions of the existing software will not be sold. The idea is what Anwalt.de or Frag-einen-Anwalt.de or 123-recht.de have implemented is to be offered in English. Consulting lawyers and accountants can have their own profile and upload their own legal news and hints for a monthly basic fee of € 40 in English. These professionals will be promoted so that clients can ask their questions and offer a certain fee that the lawyer may accept or not. Even though the customer will determine the price, but for the sake of seriousness, no bid lower than € 30 € (incl. VAT) will be accepted.
1.2. Lawyer Referral Directories
More and more persons use lawyer referral services and internet platforms to find and vet the lawyer they intend to hire. Lawyers, just as much, embrace this new approach in acquiring new clients. In Germany, already 60% of all lawyers find new clients online on internet platforms brokering legal services. This relates to a study performed by Soldan Institute.
1.2.1. LawFon
The LawFon is the interface between the pure initial instruction that the encyclopedia provides and real consultation. Whenever it is too ineffective and costly to arrange an appointment with a professional, travel to him to have a short talk and only to be finished after 5 minutes, the LawFon comes in handy. With the thought of the phases of acquisition in mind, LawFon serves in the pre-phase of a legal assignment. Answering quick questions can clarify whether there is a need for a more detailed intensive consultation.
Service numbers are to be assigned in a two-fold approach: 1) by topic (labor law, residence law) and 2) to the individual attorney. When a dial-thru is assigned by topic then the call will be diverted via a random generator to any other qualified lawyer online. A personal dial-thru will be for the exclusive use of one professional – also on his own homepage for the contractual period. The call center software is already in use for the initiator's own business needs: Ihreservicenumber.de. The existing domain LawFon.biz will used as a special marketing tool with the same technique in the backend.
1.2.2. Shop
The shop will sell contract templates and other e-literature for the immigrant. My plans are to obtain whitelabel version of their website www.JanoLaw.de or www.vertragsautomat.de (selling legal forms, contract templates, etc). Further templates will be offered – with the possibility to fill them out interactively. The Anglophone market needs its bilingual templates. Certain topics like "Legal Guide to Driving in Germany" or "Legal Guide to Dwelling in Germany" are to be extracted for digital books (.PDF, .MOBI, etc.) for downloading.
1.2.3. Directory
The directory will not only contain lawyers but also other service providers for Anglophone foreigners wanting to live in Germany. Such other service providers can be tax consultants, intercultural consultants, etc. This will be a major difference to the existing German business models. The basic idea is a service portal for the successful immigrant in Germany.
1.2.4. Get a Translation
This module will be continued to be developed once the other sub-projects are at least running to some degree. When people are new in Germany they need and want to understand "everything" and that instantly – but they cannot. LG2G could offer a "translation on the fly" or full translation – just as wished and needed. This could be implemented via toll numbers for sending and online payment schemes for picking up the translation. These translations could be done by well-integrated students or young professional translators as subcontractors.
1.3. The Market
This section will briefly discuss the need of this portal and any existing competition. Based on the numbers of the Federal Statistic Agency, this project is targeting 10 million foreigners living in Germany[2] and many more wanting to come to Germany: Germany is the third favorite destination to live abroad.
1.4. Demand
Does a demand for this exist? Yes! The project "The Legal Guide to Germany" was first introduced to the public in 2002. In 2007, the idea of this portal was copied by the Federal Marketing Agency of Germany, www.Invest-in-Germany.de, now Germany Trade and Invest. Proof is also shown by all those expat social networks and official publications that want to serve the immigrating foreigner.
While Germany Trade and Invest shows best the need for investors. Private persons also have a great need on reliable information – best from one source. Every businessman has also a private life – typically at least. In the meantime, Expatica won the initiator as an expert to answer readers' questions. Until a few years back, their expert for Germany was unmanned. Within a month's time the questions skyrocketed to approx. 30 per month. In the meantime, the average is around 10 questions a day.
A more recent demand for this project stems also from a more unexpected angle: the government itself. Federal politicians have decided to make German law more attractive as a choice of law to rule international commerce. This is reflected in the project www.LawMadeInGermany.de. The contents of this site basically boil down to the authoritative promise to internationally promote the implementation of German law in international contracts. But who will use something he does not know? LG2G will be there! Once LG2G is running, the owner of this site will be contacted for significant mutual cross-referrals.
1.5. Competition
At least one model business already exists in Germany but not in English and not orientated on the needs of the expat / foreign investor.
Master Business
Deutsche Anwalthotline
Ask a Lawyer
Public websites exist in manifold shades and intentions. However, they only want to lure the foreigner into Germany with official and positive information. LG2G, on the other hand, intends to keep the immigrant in Germany and also provide "true hard facts" based on professional experience. The encyclopedia is to be a "how to" for self-help. On the other hand, official websites might all fine in text but latest their videos remain exclusively in German.
1.6. Acceptance on the Market
The market has accepted this project. It is surely not unimportant that the American government is referred to this project on their website assisting export interested Americans http://www.export.gov – permanently ranking no. 7 on Google Analytics until a few years back. This exposure on the web has been mainly achieved by itself – virtually without advertising budget. Since the American government turned this portal to a money-making machine, LG2G's presence has also disappeared.
2. Current Implementation
This section is to describe the "status quo" in regards to concept, technique, and acquisition. To sum it all up, LG2G is a running prototype. LG2G provides:
Ø ca. 500 content pages as encyclopedia,
Ø ca. 300 news articles on 10 different topics.
3. Future of LG2G
As of now, the project did not create any real turnover. The reason for this lies in the fact that the initiator first exclusively invested own funds into technology / development of contents but not run advertisement and marketing, tried this business in part-time without a budget.
The encyclopedic part of LG2G is basically only in need of contents and less technology as the technology is only Joomla. The now missing contents will come from future authors.
The relevant software needs to be developed in order to broker legal services because white versions of the existing software will not be sold. The first development will cost 30€. The idea is what Anwalt.de or Frag-einen-Anwalt.de or 123-recht.de have implemented is to be offered in English. Consulting lawyers and accountants have their own profile and upload their own legal news and hints for a monthly basic fee of € 40 in English. These professionals will be promoted so that clients can ask their questions and offer a certain fee that the lawyer may accept or not. Even though the customer will determine the price, but for the sake of seriousness, no bid lower than € 30 will be accepted. In order to keep this acquisition "mutually reasonable", LG2G will collect and forward to the professional.
The question remains to be answered why shall LG2G flourish in the future when in the past success failed? While the encyclopedic part has strong free-of-cost competition, the entrepreneurial focus is to be reset to the subproject "Ask-a-Lawyer". When the initiator started, he was way ahead of the now current need to attract smart heads to Germany and keep them here to battle the great demand on the labor market. It is all about Legal Tech 2.0. This is current buzz word when it comes to the development of the legal consultation market. The combination of abstract instruction (subproject encyclopedia) and simultaneously brokering legal service (subproject "Ask-a-Lawyer") will trickle the user's interest to find it out for virtually nothing and when implementation is needed for one's personal needs the lawyer is only one further click away. In regards to marketing, the future success will be triggered in the collaboration with established websites providing them affiliate ads to so spread the work of LG2G. The initiator has continued studying the market, need, and demand to have now the right understanding to develop success.
4. Financing
This project needs grant-in-aid financing in order to grow into a self-financing business. Positions that require an explanation will be briefly described below. Seed funding of 20 k€ has come from the three famous "fs (friends, family, fools)". The target financing will be from the crowd with a requirement of 200 k€.
The funds are to go towards "Legal Media UG". The crowd financing method shall depend on the funds provided. The smaller contribution x (up to t.b.d. €) shall only receive a life-long reading rights to the encyclopedia. The medium-sized contribution y (more than x and up to t.b.d. €) shall receive the reward for the smaller contribution plus exemption from fees for any further going services. The large contribution shall receive z (more than y up to t.b.d. €) minority shares in the company / profit distributions[ABvE1] .
4.1. Need
Monetary, personnel and technical needs of 200 k€ exist. The grant-in is intended to use for the details as described above. The director can oblige one third of his basic salary for unintended and short-term risks of this project. The special need for advertisement in the beginning is needed to boost the awareness of the project into reader's and sponsor's mind.[ABvE2]
4.2. Profit and Loss Forecast
Below is the forecast for the first five years based on careful and conservative expectation. An annual breakdown as well as break down for the individual positions will be provided below[ABvE3] .
4.3. Explanation of Earnings
The prognosis of this plan is realistic and can be expected. Relevant and comparable companies, like DAAG and QNC, are making millions in any year. The values derive from their published balance sheets for the year 2011. QNC runs the sites "123-recht.de" and "Frag-einen-Anwalt.de" and "Steuerberater.net". DAAG publishes "Deutsche Anwaltshotline (German Lawyers Hotline)".
ca. € 5 Mio
ca. € 2.4 Mio
4.3.1. Professional Profiles
If a lawyer or an accountant is to consult, they are to be paid. This leads to two income sources: The first source is the profile fee for the professional and the second results from brokering the payment. Further possibilities can be special registration services. Such as optimizing a customer's profile for search results or uploading the profile in general.
The profile fee can also be described as a basic fee that the lawyer or accountant is listed among the experts. In return for the basic fee, the professional will receive many possibilities in return to promote his business. The expert will have i.a. the possibility to upload his or her legal hints. The applied prices relate to those of Anwalt.de.
When a visitor asks a question on the market place, the consultation price is published and LG2G will take a fee of 5% of the consultation fee from the questioner. LG2G will mediate payment with the questioner and the expert because the expert is to receive his or her remuneration at the end of any month without having to worry about being paid. LG2G will only publish the answer when LG2G (and so the expert) has been paid.
Even though LG2G is a legal portal, advertisement of other professionals reaching out to foreigners are to be added to the Business Directory. These professionals are to be translators, insurance brokers, financial consultants, phone brokers, etc. The target businesses are those which want to reach out to expats and foreign investors.
4.3.2. Paid Reading
Just like paying for a book, the reader is to pay for reading the contents. The freely accessible information functions as a teaser. Why should the reader pay for something that can be found for free on the Internet? It is all about having this information
- Ø from one source,
- Ø as a professional description, yet for the non-lawyer,
- Ø for instruction purposes and not as advertisement,
- Ø reliable
- Ø up-to-date.
Lawyers and other professionals are telling inside stories – and not a layperson. It is like an online manual for self-help.
This approach stands in diametrical contrast to the model businesses "HowToGermany" or Wikipedia. The difference is justified because no expert knowledge is being published. HowToGermany can finance itself exclusively via advertisement because the contents only "alphabetize" the reader to Germany. No expert knowledge or experience is being transferred. Wikipedia has a foundation behind it which collects millions on donations annually but still lacks the professional liability of the contents. LG2G implements a high level of creativity to bring experts' knowledge to the "normal" person and overcome (inter)cultural borders. As an example, "bakshish" is common concept in Arabic countries yet bribes are conceptually not welcome in Germany.
Seen from the reader's monetary perspective, a subscription pays off. Each page can be considered as an initial consultation. Lawyers remuneration law (§34 Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz) determines that an initial consultation may cost the private person at most € 190 on fees + € 20 communication flat + € 39.90 VAT = € 249.90. This cap is not applicable for businesses. Compare this with € 3 per month or € 36 p.a. …
There are two types of readers – the private and the business reader. The difference between the two relates to the scope of included contents. As a basic offer for the private reader topics are offered that are interesting for the private person exclusively. Such topics will be marriage, divorce, child custody, renting apartments, driving rules, income tax, etc. On top of that comes everything that is needed for entrepreneurial activities. Business topics will address company law, VAT, corporate tax, trademarks, and so on.
4.3.3. Institutional Readers ./. Volume Licenses
This option is to address the global HR of a global corporation in its dealings with impats. This immigrant will only steal precious time from the HR's duties, when having to ask all those basic questions. The impat will only then be profitable for the company if his/her mind is not full of question marks, when wanting to orientate him/herself on his/her everyday rights and duties. The new person in Germany will only be productive when work, living and orientation needs are covered.
These persons are lured to Germany with "welcome packages" (relocation costs, special bonuses, etc.). Nobody takes care of the trailing spouse. This is where the encyclopedia kicks in. Too many secondments have failed because the trailing spouse was bored to death, having no orientation on the life at the family's new home country. If the working spouse can only return to dull home, the employee might lose the interest in the position abroad. When this happens, the employer will have wasted a lot of time, sweat, money and have disappointed many persons. Target companies for volume licenses are global corporations and research institutes with frequent exchange of foreigners visiting them.
Multinational corporations like:
Ø Bayer,
Ø Siemens,
Ø Sony,
Ø Babcock,
Ø Coca (/Pepsi) Cola,
Ø Kyocera,
Ø etc.
Research institutes like:
Ø Max Planck Institute,
Ø Robert Koch Institute,
Ø Aspen Institute,
Ø etc. etc.
Consulates and Embassies will doubtfully have a budget for LG2G. The responsible person will have to be persuaded to follow the American example. The Americans have the topic "Living in Germany (http://germany.usembassy.gov/acs/about_germany)" on their website. The successful portal HowToGermany is mentioned here. This link has been indirectly remunerated. HowToGermany's publisher has been giving the American mission 200 free copies of the print version of his portal. Surely such can be achieved with other consulates. Upon funding, LG2G will pursue this approach.
4.3.4. Shop
Alike the German market, people need legal templates. LG2G will provide such bilingual sample contracts and forms. Comparable successful companies that already exist in Germany are www.JanoLaw.de and www.Formblitz.de. I would like to sell their services and templates are exclusively via i-framing their shop into the portal. Bilingual contracts between contractual partners means eye-level for both sides of the paper. This enhances private and non-corporate transactions. When used in legal disputes, they have the advantage of not needing to be translated anymore. As a specialty of LG2G, checklists for typical applications of foreigners will be sold to prevent the target clientele to visit authorities more than required.
4.3.5. LawFon
The LawFon offers the possibility to have a "quick" question answered. The call on the toll number 09001 529 366 xx costs approx. € 2 / minute with costs of around € 0.90 / minute. This model copies DeutscheAnwaltsHotline – only in English.
4.3.8. Expenses
The most important expenditures will be briefly discussed below.
18.104.22.168 Sales Person
A salesperson with the gift of persuasion will be needed to promote the portal and its products. His salary shall consist of two parts: a monthly fixed salary of € 1,000 and 1/3 of acquired business as a commission.
The tasks of this marketing person will be to find ad sponsors, professionals willing to sell their knowledge over the platform. The professionals to attract will be individual lawyers and accountants as well as established firms. Marketing material has to be development. Marketing campaigns have to be implemented.
Expat fairs like Newcomers Festival in Munich, Frankfurt/Main, Dusseldorf as well as the very successful newbie ClubGlobals are to be visited as an exhibitor. More affiliate advertisement is to be installed and monitored; a marketing kit has to be developed and kept up to date. Professionals are to be acquired via specialist fairs.
188.8.131.52 Content / Online Manager
The content manager will triple check the language of articles to be published, markup the texts for SEO, SEM, searching and adding pictures to each page, interweaving leads to the shop, other articles and services, run the monthly newsletter.
After first analysis, a lower but fair salary for such person will be € 2,000 (including employer's co-payments). If the working day cannot be filled with work on the website, the content manager will follow up on not yet successful acquisitions. In the second year, it is intended that this person will receive a raise.
188.8.131.52 Advertisement
At first, the majority of the advertisement budget will be reserved for affiliate advertisement provided to third-party websites in order to cost-effectively promote LG2G. The applicant will promote LG2G via affiliate advertisement known expat sites, like:
- Ø www.Expatica.com,
- Ø www.expat.com,
- Ø www.Internations.org,
- Ø www.Germany-Way.com,
- Ø www.germany-usa.com,
- Ø www.JustLanded.com,
- Ø www.Expats-in-Bavaria.com,
- Ø (Berlin) International Women's Club,
- Ø American Women's Club,
- Ø http://www.export.gov
- Ø etc.
Affiliate advertisement here implies that LG2G will be the sponsor in the triangle of platform provider, affiliation platform. Classic print or modern digital ads can be placed in the waiting rooms at immigration authorities.
[1] The midsize investor Investor Verge Inc laments this. Their story will be shown below.
[ABvE1]Kann mich nicht zwischen beiden Varianten entscheiden.
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Nvidia has formally unveiled the GeForce Go 7900 mobile graphics chip family notebook maker Toshiba pre-announced last month. Then, Toshiba debuted a laptop based on the 7900 GS - today, Nvidia added the 7900 GTX to the line-up.
The two 7900 GPUs are fabbed at 90nm. The "flagship" 7900 GTX has a fill rate of 12bn pixels per second and can process 1bn vertices in the same timeframe. The 7900 GS, which is pitched at "slimmer performance notebooks", offers a 7.5bn pixels per second fill rate and a 656m vertices per second rate.
Both provide all the key features of other, lesser 7000-series mobile GPUs - Shader Model 3.0 support, PureVideo H.264 hardware acceleration, CineFX 4.0, Intellisample 4.0, PCI Express, GDDR 3 memory support etc. - but presumably with higher memory and core clock frequencies. Nvidia didn't provide numbers, but the two new chips' memory clocks are 600MHz and 500MHz, respectively, making for effective clock speeds of 1.2GHz and 1GHz.
Nvidia said the 7900 GTX and 7900 GS are now available to order in notebooks from Toshiba and Dell, with product coming "soon" from the likes of Gateway, ABS, Voodoo PC, Vicious PC, AJP, Evesham, Hypersonic and others. Alienware is notable by its absence from the list. ®


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Life is dangerous. Generally. The actual event of birth itself, though inevitably still a little gooey for reasons beyond the scope of this posting, is far less dangerous these days than say even 50 years ago. For mother and child. Sort of lowering the standards of the entrance exam, you might say. But, having overcome that traditionally difficult initial challenge, one is thrown headlong into a battle to maintain superiority over this mortal coil… until one day, with 100% certainty, one must eventually fail.
At that point, assuming ones heritage isn't Norwegian, and ones plumage isn't particularly blue, you will be generally agreed as being dead, and not likely to be offered the option of being nailed to a perch in perpetuity, or kept as a hunting trophy. [Confused readers may prefer to just quietly leave by the back door at this point. Those a little more curious can catch up here – but don't be long, we can't wait for you. Regulars can continue in the safe assumption that things will get no better. Or less confusing.]
So anyway…
Though the wonderful annual Darwin Awards catalogue the many and imaginative occasions when the human gene pool does a quick self-clean to remove the floaties, by and large most of us lead pretty unremarkable lives. Someone has to be average, after all. If you don't like the idea of being average, then simply content yourself that you almost certainly have more than the average number of legs. (Come on, think about it…). If in fact you have less, then though I certainly meant no offence, you are just as un-average, and that was my only point, after all.
Where the hell was I going? Yes – Vancouver! So, I work in downtown Vancouver. I use the word "work" loosely, you understand. It rains a bit there. Often. With feeling and gusto.
Personally, I love it. I find it refreshing; renewing even. I'm also 6′ 2″ or thereabouts. (Patience. if you're new to these pages, you'll get the hang of it. There is a point, eventually.) Being born amongst the green, wet hills of Yorkshire , I feel most at home in the dashing rain, letting it soak my head, and feeling it cleanse my soul.
Actually, I was born in a hospital in Wakefield, but that's much less evocative, don't you think? It's true that I did grow up (as much as I've managed, anyway) on the moors, and loved sitting in the rain at the ruins of Top Withens (or "Wuthering Heights" if you prefer).
Vancouver's a very accommodating city – along with much of Canada. There's Quebec of course, which largely takes the Welsh view of multi-ethnicity (i.e. "it's too hard to spell – lets ignore it"), but by and large, Vancouver takes on all-comers. Over recent years this has meant a relatively high intake of folks from the Far Eastern countries. No issue here whatsoever. Certainly makes for a much more vibrant mix, great food, colourful customs, multiple Christmas/New Year time excuses for parties, and so on.
Genetically however, there are a couple of traits I've particularly become sensitised to. First and I think undeniably, a lot of oriental folk (here we politely use "Asian" just to mix up the newly landed Brits, who then have to learn to re-categorise "Asian" folk as "East Indian") are somewhat under-represented in the height department. According to the oft-quoted Wikipedia, the average height of an urban Chinese bloke in 2002 was 5′ 7″, and a rural Chinese lady 5′ 2″. Those are averages, so presumably 50% of them were shorter.
The second thing I've become sensitised to is how eagerly Vancouverites generally, but Asian folk specifically love to own, and deploy the humble brolly. I have to admit that I'm really impressed with the design and technology used these days. No mere folded newspaper over the head!
I've seen umbrellas with silvered undersides, so they can double as sun-blocking parasols (eternal hope is such a quaint human trait, don't you think?), and I've seen (and for a time, even owned) umbrellas with collapsible plastic sheaths which allow the owner to avoid leaving wet puddles at their destination. These come replete with a little screw-off bottom to drain them at a more opportune moment. Brilliant! (I only paid 99¢ in Taipei, BTW…)
I'm not sure if you've experienced road rage. It's not pretty. I suppose if it were, it'd be called road rouge, black-top bonhomie or something equally flouncy.
Now imagine that in a country with a population of oh, say 1.4 BILLION people, where cars have become relatively commonplace relatively quickly. Quickly as in "before more roads can be built to accommodate them" quickly. Mental image forming? I enjoyed Beijing, but the traffic scared the living daylights out of me. And I've driven in Italy!!
Now take that "got to make the gap now" mentality, and transplant it to a pedestrian. Say around 5′ 2″ tall, just as a random example.
Now transplant the pedestrian to Vancouver.
At rush-hour.
In the rain.
With an umbrella – held say around a foot higher than their head, just for argument's sake.
Now let's add some more pedestrians.
Say around the 6′ 2″ height mark.
See the problem?
I half do… 🙂
Just don't get me started on young mothers, pushchairs and spatial awareness…


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Heavily marketed as a safer, healthful alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are under fire from California health officials who have declared "vaping" a public health threat, hoping to head off the type of deceptive manipulation that tobacco companies succeeded with for decades, according to researchers.
A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
A growing trend in the criminal justice system is the move toward problem-solving courts, including mental health courts. Using case studies of two mental health courts in a West Coast city, this article seeks to explore how mental health courts may operate by reducing stigma among clients. From observations of the court process in mental health courts and qualitative interviews with mental health court professional staff and mental health court clients, ritual process emerged as a powerful theme that underscores the management of social stigma.
Americans love crime. The criminal justice system is fetishized in popular culture and news media. We watch the news and scour the Internet to assess our own moral compass, take cues from others' digressions, and bear witness to justice and punishment. Historically, we learned about crime through news media and fiction. The Internet has dramatically changed this landscape: for the first time, mug shots and jailhouse rosters are available with a click.
The number of children in foster care across the country is driven not solely by child abuse and neglect, but by states' varying politics and approaches to social problems, a new University of Washington (UW) study finds.
States with more punitive criminal justice systems tend to remove children from their homes far more frequently than those with generous welfare programs — meaning that two states with similar rates of child abuse and neglect could have very different rates of foster care entry.
There's a stark and troubling way that incarceration diminishes the ability of a former inmate to empathize with a loved one behind bars, but existing sociological theories fail to capture it, Vanderbilt University sociologists have found.
Despite significant public, political, and media attention to the issue of criminal violence in the United States, we know surprisingly little about the trends in violent crime for different racial/ethnic groups in recent decades. For example, what are the disparities in homicide between whites, African Americans, and Hispanics? Have these disparities changed over the past 20 years? If so, why? This lack of knowledge is largely due to data limitations, as ethnic identifiers are rarely collected in many official crime statistics.
The U.S. prison population continued to rise even after the crime rate began declining in the mid-1990s because judges were faced with more repeat offenders, a new study suggests.
Using data from Minnesota, an Ohio State University sociologist found that the U.S. criminal justice system felt the reverberations from the increase in violent crime and imprisonment that occurred from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
Immigrants detained in a privately run detention facility while awaiting deportation decisions are far less likely than those held in county or city jails to receive visits from their children, a new study finds.
ASA speaks with sociologist Christopher Dum at the 2016 ASA Annual Meeting on August, 2016, in Seattle, WA. Dum talks about what it means to "do sociology," how he uses sociology in his work, highlights of his work in the field, the relevance of sociological work to society, and his advice to students interested in entering the field.


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Regional water quality experts reported progress today in dealing with an unrelenting new strain of algae in Lake Skinner that is affecting the taste and smell of drinking water being served to consumers in San Diego and southwest Riverside counties.
TEMECULA, California Regional water quality experts reported progress today in dealing with an unrelenting new strain of algae in Lake Skinner that is affecting the taste and smell of drinking water being served to consumers in San Diego and southwest Riverside counties.
Jill T. Wicke, manager of water system operations for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, said the district will apply another treatment of copper sulfate on Saturday -- the fourth application since Aug. 8 -- to address the growth of a persistent new species of blue-green algae in the drinking water reservoir near Temecula.
"We're hoping that we've turned the corner in dealing with this aggressive new algae strain, which has been particularly difficult to treat," Wicke said. "Since the last treatment Sept. 17, we have observed a decline in algae in the lake, which we expect will continue to decline with Saturday's application.
"We also expect that cooler fall temperatures will help reduce algae growth and re-growth. It might, however, take as long as three weeks before some consumers notice an improvement in the taste and smell of their drinking water," Wicke said.
Wicke reiterated that water with an earthy-musty taste and smell continues to be safe to drink, but that consumers with sensitive noses and palates may find it unpleasant. The earthy-tasting water -- which cannot be corrected in the filtration and treatment processes -- is being supplied by Metropolitan to supplement local supplies of Eastern and Western municipal water districts, based in Perris and Riverside, respectively, and the San Diego County Water Authority.
While Saturday's copper sulfate treatment -- the safe and approved method to control algae growth -- takes effect, Metropolitan continues to by-pass the lake through nearby pipelines to isolate the lake's supplies in its distribution system. Metropolitan ultimately plans to return the lake to service once the water's aesthetics improve.
In the meantime, consumers noticing an earthy-musty taste and smell in their drinking water can refrigerate it to improve its aesthetics or should consider using bottled water, officials said.
Growth of algae in open reservoirs is generally a seasonal problem that usually occurs in warm months. As in previous years, the cause of this year's taste-and-smell episode has been identified as 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) and geosmin, compounds that are produced from the growth of certain algae in freshwaters throughout the world. Typically, MIB and geosmin levels increase in summer months when the warmer weather accelerates algae growth.
This year, however, the seasonal issue has been complicated by the appearance of the new algae species, Planktothrix perornata, which was first identified in Lake Skinner in late August, said Dr. Mic Stewart, Metropolitan's water quality manager.
"Unlike other freshwater algae species, which attach to the sides or bottom of a reservoir, this new strain tends to proliferate throughout different lake levels, making it much more difficult to treat because of its widespread occurrence in the lake," Dr. Stewart said.
Metropolitan officials speculated that the new algae species might have been imported in supplies from Northern California following the June 2004 levee break in the Upper Jones Tract island of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Dr. Stewart noted that recent reports suggest the new species has caused similar problems in the northern part of the State Water Project.
Consumers interested in receiving additional information about the quality of Metropolitan's drinking water supplies may visit MWD's Web site, mwdh2o.com, for the district's annual water quality report and other related materials.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a cooperative of 26 cities and water agencies serving 18 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River and Northern California to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling, storage and other water-management programs.
Source: Business Wire, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California